Word: cavanagh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aided by Pee-Wee Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...
...ninth and the tenth. The crowd went crazy. By the 13th. when he plainly got the better of Armstrong, who by this time was swinging wildly and forfeiting rounds because of low blows, the Garden was yelling for a game fighter. After the 15th round, when Referee Billy Cavanagh held up Armstrong's arm in victory (a decision boisterously booed from the gallery), Henry Armstrong was so exhausted that he probably could not have pronounced his own title: World's Featherweight -Lightweight -Welterweight Champion...
...degree of A.B. (Out of Course), as of the class of 1936, was awarded to the following: Rex R. Allen, Donald V. Baker, Jr., Thomas J. Cavanagh, Richard P. Curtis, Thomas H. Edmonds, Russell Grinnell, Jr., John L. Howard, 3rd, Wallace E. Howell, Edward S. Hutchinson, Frank B. Lawson, Bernard B. Pheeny...
...well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts made the second game at Meadow Brook last week less one-sided but the upshot was the same. When it was over, 8-to-4, Manuel Andrada, Andres Gazzotti, Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh were the first poloists who had beaten the U. S. in an international series since England...
...socialites as they are in the U. S., but ganchos (cowboys). Manuel Andrada, the Babe Ruth of Argentina, is a gaucho who has been playing high-goal polo for 30 years. Gazzotti, South America's No. 1 player, is a middle-class businessman. Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh are third-generation, European-schooled sons of rich Irish-Argentinian ranching families. Cavanagh, at 20, is currently considered the most promising poloist in the world...